The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03
Base Ball Notes.

The Washington club has trenty-one men on
its roll
Mccormick will probably pitch in one of the
Detroit games at Pittsburg
Watkinss Australian team scheme has not
been given up He will start early next winter.
Manager Williams stole march on the inter-
state commerce law. He took his team to Louis
vile by steamboat.
AS the two clubs are at present constituted,
indianapolis will win majority of the games IL
plays with Chicago.
The Southern League sell all their good play
ers and fill the vacancies with the wrecks of the
Eastern and Western leagues
seery is good waiter and gets to first on
called balls oftener than any other player IN
the club, If not in the League.
Boyle hasn't peer in the League With him
in the box indianapolis will win many a game
from the strong clubs of the League.
There are seventy eight clubs, and over
thousand professional players in the leagues
who have subscribed to the national agreement
Kirby and Hackett will be the battery for the
home club in to-day's game. and the chances are
that Garrison and Flint will do the work for
Chicago.
combinations can be made with the eight League
clubs9 The Chicago Inter Ocean mathematician
has figured the number out to be 40, 800.
The prospect OF rain kept great many away
from Athletic Park yesterday, and only about
one thousand people witnessed the game. The
crowd will doubtless be more than doubled in
size to-day.
George Meyers is a hard worker, and a
cessful and daring base-runner has no superior
in the club He keeps pitcher guessing all the
time he is first, and slides like toboggan get
ting to second.
To-day and tomorrow the Chicagos play
again, and these will be the last games played
in this city until the first week in June after the
clubs return from the East. Large crowds
should patronize the games.
Baldwin and Bennett of the Detroit club
HON los iUht huro
ager Watkins says Bennett is still in bad form,
and that Badwin's work in the box yesterday
warrants his retirement for while.
In a recent letter to a gentleman in San Fran
cisco Denny says: Il have captured the whole
town, and a great favorite-playing great
ball and strictly temperate. Indianapolis is
great deal better city than St Louis"
The League pennant has never been held over
two years in succession by any club. The Chicaeos
claim they will make it three by taking it again
this season The st. Louis Browns were the
first to hold the Association pennant for more
than one season. They, too, think they will pull
it off three times in succession
The management of the Washington Base
ball Club has issued season tickets the Presi-
dent. members of the Cabinet and many of the
prominent bureau officers Private Secretary
Lamont has not been overlooked. He is base
ball enthusiast. When he lived in Buffalo the
President was regular attendant at League
games in that city
Pittsburg Dispatch: The Detroits are Tot do
ing the work expected of them especially after
the practice they have had. The predictions
were that they would have a walk-ovec in their
games this week at Indianapolis. The result
proves that the Detroits will have to play ball
this year all the time. they have a much faster
class to travel in this season than last.
A wellknown League PLAYER says that the
brotherhood of ball players will make an effort
to stop the buying and selling of players another
year He says that the matter would have been
taken up this year, but the League mad little
the better of the brotherhood by holding their
spring meeting after the brotherhood had held
theirs. Another year this will not happen.
Lovers of baseball have no occasion to
criticise the home club for its work far No
club hope TO win every game it plays and
If they play good ball and furnish good exhi
btion the audience has got its moneys worth.
Thus far the club has played better ball than
any Indianapolis has ever had. In the three
games with Detroit they were beaten every time
by hard luck and did some great playing.
When the members of the local team were
offered their salaries yesterday, they refused to
accept them, because the fines assessed against
them two weeks ago by Manager Burnham had
been deducted. The players stated that it was
their understanding that President Newberger
had promised that the fines should be RENTED,
and with that understanding they would not &C
cept their pay. The directors. at their meeting
last night, decided that the fines should not be
RENTED.